There ain't a damn thing "2013" about "The Big Blue", so we can assume the all-caps moniker of SULK is less a trendy stylization as it is a command: "THOU SHALT SULK." The London five-piece assumes you were much more prone to glamorous moping in, say, 1995, taking cues from Suede's "Drowners", the Verve's "Blue", at least a dozen Oasis singles and of course, the Radiohead song which serves as their band name (which also serves as that band's last link to big-tent UK anthems).

Between the swirling guitars, the midtempo drums and a chorus that sounds like the most laconic thing 100,000 people were meant to sing in unison, you assume the guitarists playing on "The Big Blue" are staring down the entire time while the lead singer is completely stationary, and you'd be right. It's clear SULK learned a lot from their forefathers of shoegaze-indebted festival rock-- first and foremost, that while subtlety has a place in music, it's certainly not here.

[from Graceless; out now via Perfect Sound Forever]